Re: [syndication] Mime types when serving RSS

["James Linden" <jlinden@lindensys.net>]

> Right! text/xml it is then...
>
> Do any applications/aggregators take any notice of it? Anyone?

    Snewp monitors what the content type is, but currently doesn't do
anything about it.

    I have a suite of Win32 applications currently under development that
will monitor it also, but so far, they won't really care in the end what the
MIME type is.

> text/xml is better than application/xml if you want Netscape 4 users to
> be able to view the file without saving it locally, IE doesn't seem to
> care about mime types and AFAIK neither do (most/any?) RSS tools.

    Incidentally -- IE does care about MIME type - just not as strictly as
NN or others.

James